Here is a collection of 40 amazing life quotes to inspire and motivate you and help you gain deeper insights into the meaning and purpose of life.
As I was collating these life quotes, I couldn’t stop being amazed at the amount of wisdom contained in every single one of them. They are almost like small life lessons; they can bring about paradigm shifts in your mindset and the way you act and behave in your day-to-day life.
Life Quotes With Great Advice
1. “Life is 10 % what happens to you and 90 % how you react to it.” – Charles R Swindoll
2. “You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.” – Maya Angelou
3. “Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.” – Roy T Bennett.
4. “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.“ – Maya Angelou
5. “Never regret a day in your life. Good days give happiness, bad days give experience, worst days give lessons and best days give memories.”
6. “We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to learn, to grow, to love…And then we return home.” – Aboriginal saying.
7. “In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take.”
8. “The best view comes after the hardest climb.”
9. “Life goes on whether you choose to move on and take a chance in the unknown or stay behind, locked in the past, thinking of what could have been.”
10. “Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.” – Mark Twain.
Life Quotes For A New Perspective
11. “Sometimes you find yourself in the middle of nowhere, and sometimes in the middle of nowhere, you find yourself.”
12. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson.
13. “Don’t get lost in your pain. Know that one day your pain will become your cure.” – Rumi
14. “Having a positive attitude gives you the power to uplift, the power to create change, the power to motivate, the power to inspire, the power to influence, the power to cultivate happiness, and the list goes on.” – Lindsey Rietzsch
15. “Always be yourself. At the end of the day, that’s really all you’ve got. When you strip everything down, that’s all you’ve got. So, always be yourself.” – Al Roker
16. “Life is much better when you are living in the present moment.”
17. “Difficulties in your life don’t come to destroy you, but to help you realize your potential.”
18. “I think being in love with life is a key to eternal youth.” – Doug Hutchison
19. “Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can’t build on it; it’s only good for wallowing.” —Katherine Mansfield
20. “I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.” – Rabindranath Tagore
21. “Live your best, act your best, and think your best each day, for there may be no tomorrows.”
22. “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” – Lao Tzu
23. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
24. “The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” – Dalai Lama
25. “The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.” – Henry Boye
More Life Quotes
26. “Life is better when you cry a little, laugh a lot, and are thankful for everything you’ve got.”
27. “The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.” – Eminem
28. “Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion, you’re wasting your life.” – Jackie Robinson
29. “The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” – Pablo Picasso.
30. “The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.” – Bertrand Russell.
31. “He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.” – Elbert Hubbard.
32. “There is only one certainty in life and that is that nothing is certain.” – G.K. Chesterton
33. “Accept no one’s definition of yourself; define yourself.” – Harvey Fierstein.
34. “The trick is to enjoy life. Don’t wish away your days, waiting for better ones ahead.” – Marjorie Pay Hinckley
35. “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” – Marie Curie
36. “The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.” – Marcus Aurelius
37. “The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.” – William James
38. “Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.” – Nikki Giovanni
39. “What I do today is important because I am exchanging a day of my life for it.” – Hugh Mulligan
40. “All we have is now.”
